Note: This response was written by "John_Profit". The original note was by "John_Prophet". Note the discrepancy.
I don't know who John_Prophet is, whether his cat or car was actually stolen, or why someone would be imitating him, but seeing such an inflammatory statement posted by someone who had sounded perfectly reasonable in the parent comment kinda tipped me off that something was weird. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
If that worked, what would be the point? If it became just like the extinct animal it'd end up going extinct again. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Wait a sec... you fed the troll, and you expect to GET karma points from that? That's not the way things work. You saw that it was flamebait, but you took the bait anyway. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
No, it means you keep the '42' comments to yourself, because everyone's heard them already. Especially the base 13 one. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I only caught the end of it, but here's basically how it went.
Jack Valenti repeatedly compares DeCSS to a burglary tool. He also says that he supports Fair Use as long as it's done in a way that he approves of, like getting a DVD from a library.
Lawrence Lessig asks Jack things like: if, hypothetically, there was a system that could restrict Fair Use on DVDs, would he oppose it? Jack's response was invariably "I don't know what you're talking about."
This repeated a few times. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Let's keep the ads at the top of the page and not in the middle of the list of articles, okay? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I believe that in the previous Mozilla thread, someone mentioned that Mozilla development on the Mac was going badly because, in addition to having to deal with the poor OS, when something went wrong on the Mac version the Mac users would all complain and nobody would actually help fix the bug.
You say you want "a browser that allows you to read the sites you want to read". Guess what - that describes even Lynx. What you want is for the sites to look like they were intended, which is why standards compliance is so important.
I've found Mozilla on Linux to be faster, more stable, and more useful than Netscape 4.75. I uninstalled 4.75 last week.
-- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
On a slightly different topic, how is it that everyone's getting along so well on unstable? I tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on unstable (after installing a fresh Debian system) and the next time I rebooted, my system was so screwed that I decided to wipe the drive and start over.
I was somewhat wondering how safe it was that it was installing IPv6 stuff in netbase as I saw it scroll by, and sure enough, after the reboot, the network didn't work. And not having access to the network somewhat left me stranded.
Was this an extreme circumstance, or is this the kind of thing that eventually happens when you run unstable? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
BizarroKiehl (and its stand-alone version, MegaHAL) is nothing like MindPixel and Open Mind. MP and OM attempt to learn facts and hopefully make connections between them; MegaHAL learns about where words are arranged in a sentence relative to each other, and makes no attempt to actually know facts.
That said, I find MegaHAL more fun to talk to.:) -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Linux definately won't have 15% of the desktop market by next year. Currently it probably has less than 5% and it's growth rate in the desktop market isn't exactly spectacular.
Would you care to quote where you got that idea? And maybe give a few examples of OSes with a higher growth rate than Linux? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Online Scrabble clubs have been driven underground, because of Hasbro. According to Hasbro, if you play Scrabble online without using their (expensive, Windows 9x only, graphically bloated, slow) version of the game, you're breaking the law. So now what happens is that the freeware Scrabble program (I won't mention the name in case any suits from Hasbro are reading this) can't be put up on a web site for long; it has to be passed along between people by DCC or something of the sort. Along the way, people have decided to not bother sending all the files, so it's lost some features such as support for multiple languages.
The way the newest version of the Scrabble program attempts to be legal, incidentally, is that you can switch configuration files that control how the game acts. By default, it plays this almost-Scrabble game with certain changes, such as 8 tiles on your rack, squares where you can't play, 4x Word Scores in hard-to-reach places, different square colors, etc. It just so happens that it's distributed with a different configuration file that makes it act like normal Scrabble.
Hasbro's control extends to other good games, too, such as Boggle and Monopoly. Again, if you're going to play them on a computer legally, you have to use the bloated Win9x games. This makes things like bsdgames/boggle (which comes with Debian) illegal. (Hey look, a legal issue you can worry about after KDE.)
I despise what Hasbro is doing to these games. I think about any game that I like to play and there's a 50/50 chance that Hasbro has bought the rights to it. There's something wrong with having a monopoly on fun. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
The headline is too sensational. The Web-safe palette isn't a "myth" - it still works perfectly well for what it's supposed to do in the first place: contain colors that can be displayed without dithering.
The 22 colors they've found are ones that not only can be displayed without dithering, but look exactly the same whether in an image or as an HTML background. The times you'll run into problems using colors that aren't in these 22 are when you're trying to put images on that background.
For one thing, you can still use transparency safely on top of any of the 216 colors. Otherwise, you can still use all 216 colors in the foreground of the image - only the background has to be one of the 22 colors if you want it to look right.
These 22 colors include, of course, black and white, which I'm guessing account for at least 90% of the page backgrounds on the Web. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Okay. There's a really cool thing you can do to help clear up this "vague assertion". It's called... RTFA.
People shouldn't have to repeat information from the article for your convenience. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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This is where we need a "Misinformative" moderation. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Just what do you plan to do about it? Reading a few other posts, it's quite apparent that AOL was exploiting people who would do anything for free hours.
Are you saying that the minimum wage should be done away with? If everyone is competing to work for the lowest wage, then everyone's wage ends up as low as the most desperate person's. Hello, sweatshops. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Hypocrisy is when you say people should do one thing, and you do another.
If someone else says you should do one thing, and you do another, that's called "having a mind of your own".
Observe that the articles were submitted by different people. (CmdrTaco did not submit them. Learn how Slashdot works.) -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
You do realize that every slashdot user is a potential author, right? And that it's possible for different people to think different things about intellectual property?
Well, now you know. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
You seem to be misunderstanding what "Open Source" means. It doesn't mean Linux. It means you have the option of compiling the program from source. Even if that source is on Windows...
Okay, so you could test using source code that you don't reveal to anyone, but how scientific is it to perform a test that nobody can reproduce? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I now have something to respond with whenever someone says "People are starving in Africa, and you're worried about software?" or something of the sort. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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I don't know who John_Prophet is, whether his cat or car was actually stolen, or why someone would be imitating him, but seeing such an inflammatory statement posted by someone who had sounded perfectly reasonable in the parent comment kinda tipped me off that something was weird.
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If that worked, what would be the point? If it became just like the extinct animal it'd end up going extinct again.
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Wait a sec... you fed the troll, and you expect to GET karma points from that? That's not the way things work. You saw that it was flamebait, but you took the bait anyway.
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No, it means you keep the '42' comments to yourself, because everyone's heard them already. Especially the base 13 one.
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This repeated a few times.
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If they're given a public list, then the c-ware companies will be able to read the list and specifically allow those sites©
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Oh great, you just got this discussion blocked by various filtering software©
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You won't find "hipocracy" in a dictionary©
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Let's keep the ads at the top of the page and not in the middle of the list of articles, okay?
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I believe that in the previous Mozilla thread, someone mentioned that Mozilla development on the Mac was going badly because, in addition to having to deal with the poor OS, when something went wrong on the Mac version the Mac users would all complain and nobody would actually help fix the bug.
You say you want "a browser that allows you to read the sites you want to read". Guess what - that describes even Lynx. What you want is for the sites to look like they were intended, which is why standards compliance is so important.
I've found Mozilla on Linux to be faster, more stable, and more useful than Netscape 4.75. I uninstalled 4.75 last week.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
On a slightly different topic, how is it that everyone's getting along so well on unstable? I tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on unstable (after installing a fresh Debian system) and the next time I rebooted, my system was so screwed that I decided to wipe the drive and start over.
I was somewhat wondering how safe it was that it was installing IPv6 stuff in netbase as I saw it scroll by, and sure enough, after the reboot, the network didn't work. And not having access to the network somewhat left me stranded.
Was this an extreme circumstance, or is this the kind of thing that eventually happens when you run unstable?
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Right. It's called humor.
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BizarroKiehl (and its stand-alone version, MegaHAL) is nothing like MindPixel and Open Mind. MP and OM attempt to learn facts and hopefully make connections between them; MegaHAL learns about where words are arranged in a sentence relative to each other, and makes no attempt to actually know facts.
:)
That said, I find MegaHAL more fun to talk to.
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Would you care to quote where you got that idea? And maybe give a few examples of OSes with a higher growth rate than Linux?
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Online Scrabble clubs have been driven underground, because of Hasbro. According to Hasbro, if you play Scrabble online without using their (expensive, Windows 9x only, graphically bloated, slow) version of the game, you're breaking the law. So now what happens is that the freeware Scrabble program (I won't mention the name in case any suits from Hasbro are reading this) can't be put up on a web site for long; it has to be passed along between people by DCC or something of the sort. Along the way, people have decided to not bother sending all the files, so it's lost some features such as support for multiple languages.
The way the newest version of the Scrabble program attempts to be legal, incidentally, is that you can switch configuration files that control how the game acts. By default, it plays this almost-Scrabble game with certain changes, such as 8 tiles on your rack, squares where you can't play, 4x Word Scores in hard-to-reach places, different square colors, etc. It just so happens that it's distributed with a different configuration file that makes it act like normal Scrabble.
Hasbro's control extends to other good games, too, such as Boggle and Monopoly. Again, if you're going to play them on a computer legally, you have to use the bloated Win9x games. This makes things like bsdgames/boggle (which comes with Debian) illegal. (Hey look, a legal issue you can worry about after KDE.)
I despise what Hasbro is doing to these games. I think about any game that I like to play and there's a 50/50 chance that Hasbro has bought the rights to it. There's something wrong with having a monopoly on fun.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
The 22 colors they've found are ones that not only can be displayed without dithering, but look exactly the same whether in an image or as an HTML background. The times you'll run into problems using colors that aren't in these 22 are when you're trying to put images on that background.
For one thing, you can still use transparency safely on top of any of the 216 colors. Otherwise, you can still use all 216 colors in the foreground of the image - only the background has to be one of the 22 colors if you want it to look right.
These 22 colors include, of course, black and white, which I'm guessing account for at least 90% of the page backgrounds on the Web.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
People shouldn't have to repeat information from the article for your convenience.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
This is where we need a "Misinformative" moderation.
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Just what do you plan to do about it? Reading a few other posts, it's quite apparent that AOL was exploiting people who would do anything for free hours.
Are you saying that the minimum wage should be done away with? If everyone is competing to work for the lowest wage, then everyone's wage ends up as low as the most desperate person's. Hello, sweatshops.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
If someone else says you should do one thing, and you do another, that's called "having a mind of your own".
Observe that the articles were submitted by different people. (CmdrTaco did not submit them. Learn how Slashdot works.)
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You do realize that every slashdot user is a potential author, right? And that it's possible for different people to think different things about intellectual property?
Well, now you know.
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Sounds like you should find something else to do in the refrigerator. :)
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You seem to be misunderstanding what "Open Source" means. It doesn't mean Linux. It means you have the option of compiling the program from source. Even if that source is on Windows...
Okay, so you could test using source code that you don't reveal to anyone, but how scientific is it to perform a test that nobody can reproduce?
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I now have something to respond with whenever someone says "People are starving in Africa, and you're worried about software?" or something of the sort.
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Actually, it's WAY more than a petabyte. It's 10 exabytes, or 10,000 petabytes.
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